Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.
The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.